fme_767652 - V REPUBLIC Médaille, Bicentenaire de la Révolution, Siège de la Bastille
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Type : Médaille, Bicentenaire de la Révolution, Siège de la Bastille
Date: 1988
Mint name / Town : Monnaie de Paris
Metal : silver plated bronze
Diameter : 76,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver ANDRIEU Jean-Bertrand (1761-1822)
Weight : 254,72 g.
Edge : lisse + corne BR + 1988
Puncheon : corne BR
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène, quelques frottements dans le champ du revers
Obverse
Obverse legend : SIÈGE DE LA BASTILLE // MÉDAILLE HISTORIQUE / GRAVÉE EN 1789.
Obverse description : Scène illustrant l’évènement de la prise de la Bastille, signé : ANDRIEU F. - N°1.
Reverse
Reverse legend : BICENTENAIRE / DE LA / RÉVOLUTION / FRANÇAISE.
Reverse description : Légende en 4 lignes horizontales.
Historical background
V REPUBLIC
(since 08/01/1959)
The Fifth Republic, whose constitution was approved by referendum on September 28, 1958 by more than 79% of French people, only officially began with the installation of General de Gaulle as president on January 8, 1959. The constitution was amended on January 28, 1958. October 1962 by referendum where a majority of 62% of votes approves the election of the President of the Republic by direct universal suffrage. The various presidents of the Fifth Republic are Charles de Gaulle (8/01/1959 - 27/04/1969, retirement and Alain Poher becomes interim president), Georges Pompidou (15/06/1969 - 2/04/1974, deceased , Alain Poher becomes interim president), Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (19/05/1974 - 21/05/1981), François Mitterrand (21/05/1981 - 7/05/1995), Jacques Chirac (7/05 /1995 - 05/16/2007), Nicolas Sarkozy (05/16/2007 - 05/15/2012), François Hollande (05/15/2012 - 05/14/2017) and Emmanuel Macron (05/14/2017 - ).
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